After eading thousands of pages of 18th and 19th Cent. Script I vote for
a reread. If there are doubts always say it out loud and look at the
other words in the list you are sure of.......then hope.......

I expect a rabbit, rebbet=A0

Of course it could always be simply a Plain rubber.

Jim Parker


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From: Tom Dugan  To: OLDTOOLS  Sent:
Fri, August 10, 2012 7:36:11 PM Subject: RE: [OldTools] Case plane /
rubber plane?



> Just a thought.=A0 Also, what is the earliest use we have of the
> word=A0 Rubber?=A0 What do period dictionaries say?=A0 Grasping
> at straws=A0 here, but just coming at from another angle. =A0
> Cheers, John
>

As I posted earlier: mid 16th century: from the verb rub + -er. The
original sense was 'an implement (such as a hard brush) used for rubbing
and cleaning'. Because an early use of the elastic substance (previously
known as caoutchouc)was to rub out pencil marks, rubber gained the sense
'eraser' in the late 18th century The sense was subsequently (mid 19th
century) generalized to refer to the substance in any form or use, at
first often differentiated as India rubber

IF "rubber" is what was originally written, my vote is for a scrub
plane. -T =A0=A0=A0 =A0=A0=A0 =A0=A0=A0 =A0 =A0=A0=A0 =A0=A0=A0 =A0
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